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MATH 3300
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Dr. Swienciki
1. Mesopotamia Babylonian Cuneiform numerals, converting base 50
and base 10, Basic Operations.
2. Mesopotamia Babylonian Geometry, Tables for Higher math
operations.
3. Egypt Hieroglyphic & hieratic numerals, basic operations
of arithmetic.
4. Egypt Geometry, sequences, false position, unit fractions.
5. Thales of Miletus
6, Pythagoras of Samos General Information, Pythagoreans
7. Pythagoras of Samos Greek numbers, logistics, arithmetic
8. Pythagoras of Samos Greek Arithmetic (Number Theory)
9. Pythagoras of Samos Greek Geometry
10. China The Nine Chapters of Mathematical Art
11. China The Sea Island Manual, Problems, problems 3-9
12. India Aryabhata
13. India Brahmagupta
14. India Bhaskara
15. India Ramanujan
16. Classical Greek Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
17. Classical Greek Hippocrates of Chios
18, Classical Greek Aristarchus of Samos
19. Classical Greek Zeno of Elea – Paradoxed
20. Classical Greek Democritus of Abdera
21. Classical Greek Archytas of Tarentum (Taras)
22. Classical Greek Socrates
23. Plato Plato and the Academy at Athens
24. Classical Greek Aristotle and the Lyceum at Athens
25. Classical Greek Pythagorean-Euclidean: Application of Areas
26. Classical Greek Pythagorean-Euclidean: Platonic Solids
27. Classical Greek Theodorus of Cyrene
28. Classical Greek Eudoxus of Cnidus – Theory of Ratios
29. Classical Greek Eudoxus of Cnidus – Theory of Exhaustion
30. Classical Greek Theon of Smyrna, Iamblicus
31. Classical Greek Thymaridas, Nicomachus of Geresa

32. Classical Greek Oenopides of Chios
33. Classical Greek Proclus
34. Classical Greek Dinostratus
35. Classical Greek Archimedes of Syracuse
36. Classical Greek Diophantus of Alexandria
37. Classical Greek Claudius Ptolemy - Almagest
38. Classical Greek Euclid of Alexandria – Elements: Book I & II
39. Classical Greek Euclid of Alexandria – Elements: Book III–IX
40. Classical Greek Euclid of Alexandria – Elements: Book X, Book XIII
41. Classical Greek Euclid of Alexandria – Data,
42. Classical Greek Euclid of Alexandria – On the Division of Figures
43. Classical Greek Apollonius of Perga – Conics
44. Classical Greek Pappus of Alexandria – Synagoge or Collection
45. Classical Greek Euclid of Alexandria – Elements: Book 1, Book 2
46. Classical Greek Menaechmus
47. Classical Greek Eratosthenes
48. Classical Greek Heron of Alexandria
49. Classical Greek Diocles – Cissoid
50. Classical Greek Autolycus
51. Hellenistic/Greek Serenus of Byzantium
52. Hellenistic/Greek Hypatia of Alexandria
53. Hellenistic/Greek Porphyry-Plotinus
54. Hellenistic/Greek Marinus of Neapolis
55. Hellenistic/Greek Domninus of Tralles
56. Hellenistic/Greek Eutocius of Ascalon
57. Coptic Papyrus or Codex of Akmim (Berlin Codex)
58. Byzantium Maximus of Planudes
59. Roman Boethius
60. Persian/Arab Al-Kharizmi
61. Persian Al-Biruni
62. Persian/Arab Alhazen
63. Persian Omar Khayyam
64. Persian Nasir-Ed Din
65. Persian Jamshīd al-Kāshī
66. Byzantium Byzantine Mathematics
67. Northumbria Alcuin of York
68. Iraq Al-Ṣābiʾ Thābit ibn Qurra al-Ḥarrānī (Thabit)
69. Europe Gerbert, Pope Sylvester

70. Europe Fibonacci or Leonardo da Pisa
71. Europe Jordanus Nemorarius
72. Europe Campanus of Navara
73. Europe Nicole Oresme
74. Europe Nicolas of Cusa
75. Europe Regiomontanus
76. Europe Luca Pacioli
77. Europe Leonardo da Vinci
78. Europe Cardan or Geronimo Cardano
79. Europe Theory of Perspective
80. Europe Frsncois Vieta
81. Europe Johann Napier
82. Europe Bonaventura Cavalieri
83. Europe Fermat
84. Europe René Descartes
85. Europe Evangelista Torricelli
86. Europe Gerard Desargues
87. Europe Blaise Pascal
88. Europe Christiaan Hygens
89. Europe Christopher Wren
90. Europe John Wallis
91. Europe Isaac Burrow
92. Europe Sir Isaac Newton
93. Europe Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
94. Europe Nicolaus Bernoulli
95. Europe Jacques Bernoulli
96. Europe Jean Bernoulli
97. Europe L’Hospital
98. Europe Abraham de Moivre
99. Europe Colin Maclaurin
100. Europe
Brook Taylor
101. Europe
Gabriel Cramer
102. Europe
Michael Rolle
103. Europe
Leonard Euler
104. Europe
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
105. Europe
Johann Heinrich Lambert
106. Europe (French Revolution) Monge
107. Europe (French Revolution) Lagrange

108. Europe (French Revolution) Laplace
109. Europe (French Revolution) Legendre
110. Europe (French Revolution) Carnot
111. Europe (French Revolution) Condorcet
112. Europe
113. Europe
114. Europe
Saccheri
115. Hungarian
116. Russian
117. Europe
118. Europe
119. Europe
120. Europe
121. Europe
122. Europe
Felix Klein
123. Europe
124. Europe
125. Europe
Bolzano
126. Europe
127. Europe
128. Europe
Dedikind
129. Europe
130. Europe
131. Europe
132. Europe
133. Europe
Cayley
134. Europe
135. Europe
Poncarí
136. Europe
137. Europe
138. Europe
Brouwer
139. Europe
140. Europe
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Carl Fredrich Gauss
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Farkis Boyai
Lobachevsky
Niels Henrick Abel
Evariste Galois
Paulo Ruffini
Victor Poncelet
Jacob Steiner
Karl Weierstrass
George Cantor
Augustus De Morgan
George Boole
Bertrand Russell
William Hamilton
Herman Grassman
James Joseph Sylvester
Charles Peirce
David Hilbert
Emile Borel
Gen Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki
Albert Einstein